Numerous people died when a coach burst into flames after colliding with a lorry in the German state of Bavaria on Monday, a spokesman for the German government said.
"Unfortunately numerous people - a tour group from (the eastern German state of) Saxony - lost their lives in this burning bus," Steffen Seibert told a government news conference.
Police have said 31 people were injured in the crash on a motorway, some of them seriously, while 17 people were unaccounted for. (Reporting by Paul Carrel; Writing by Michelle Martin)